From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue May 23 10:26:04 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k4NGQ4jb026305; Tue, 23 May 2006 10:26:04 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k4NGQ2dF012622 for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 10:26:02 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k4NDpMFI016073 for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 09:51:22 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k4NDpMNa016072 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 23 May 2006 09:51:22 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k4NCTVFI015481 for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 08:29:31 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k4NF41mP019385 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Tue, 23 May 2006 09:04:01 -0600 X-Envelope-From: JYoung6180@aol.com Tue May 23 09:04:01 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k4NF41jb019374 for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 09:04:01 -0600 Received: from imo-d22.mx.aol.com (imo-d22.mx.aol.com [205.188.144.208]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k4NF40tL013704 for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 09:04:00 -0600 Received: from JYoung6180@aol.com by imo-d22.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.5.) id e.460.141c2b8 (63024) for ; Tue, 23 May 2006 11:03:47 -0400 (EDT) From: JYoung6180@aol.com Message-ID: <460.141c2b8.31a47e52@aol.com> Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 11:03:46 EDT To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 SE for Windows sub 5026 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: Gedcom 1734.ged I found information on GenCircles regarding my immediate family that should not be on the net. I.e. birthdates and places for many living people who have not given anyone permission to place this info on the web. ----- It's a common misconception that names, dates, and places of the living are private information but in fact they are not. There is no way to force someone to remove that very public information about your family from the Internet--and if, indeed, this GEDCOM has been circulating around the Internet you are in the position of trying to shut the barn door after the horse has escaped--you may as well forget it. It has probably been copied by dozens of people by now--no matter if you convinced one person to remove his copy from GenCircles or not. Having your families names, birthdates, and places they live on the Internet doesn't mean you will become a victim of ID theft. More info (which should be kept private) is needed for someone to steal your ID. Now, if Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, or bank account info is included in the file--then you might need to start worrying about ID theft -- but just names, dates, and places--no. Joan